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POLITICAL FRAUDS^' 

^ (LAWYER AND COUKT ROBBERY.) 

One ©f the most infamous politicar frauds perpetrated in this 
country- was the knavish support given hypocritically by Senators 
Culloni and Farwell, as pretended Republicans, to the nomination 
ol" that little swindling, corrupt, unconscionable Democratic lawyer 
shark, Mel. Fuller, as Chief Justice of the Highest Court on Earth. 
He never had an}- experience on the bench as Judge before, not 
even as Justice of the Peace, but considerable amount of practice 
at the Bar as a swindling lawyer shark in comparative obscurity. 
Cleveland went to the right resort for corrupt, swindling, bribing 
lawyer office timber. (Chicago is an omnium gatherum of the worst 
lawyer sharks in the world. There is no crime in the whole cata- 
logue of crimes that they are not capable of committing, that they 
have the courage to perpetrate in swindling people out of their 
honest property, and some of the Judges on the bench are no bet- 
ter. Were it not for Judges Gresham and Blodgett, and a few 
other Judges, Chicago would take fire and l)uni u]) again like its 
ancient prototype, Sodom). 

A base insult to the United States Supreme Court and Con- 
gress, and an infernal fraud on the people ; installing himself. 
What an infamous fai-ce and fraud — holding the Bible in one hand 
and his oath of office in the other hand, and administering to him- 
self that sacred obligation of installation. No wonder he ti-embled 
when he read his oath recpuring him to do justice to all alike, know- 
ing that he has not a single sentiment of justice in his whole being. 

Like Senator Farwell's stump-tail banking currency scheme at- 
tempted to be perpetrate<l on tlie Si-nate, secure(l by some kind of . 
wild cat stocks and bonds issui'd, or to be issu('(l ])y irresponsil)le 
(■ovi>orations — as a substitute for our valuable V . S. liaiikiug system. 



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wliidi lias l,ul uv.. l.a.l Iratures, to-wil : 'louble iiiteivst extorted 
from the people and no security to the depositor. National legal 
tender treasury notes made redeemable in coin, interchangeably 
convertible into United State bonds, as the demands or beneficial 
uses thereof might require or pay best— and banks of deposit and 
discount only, put under security to the depositor, would be a per- 
fectly safe system of National Finance. The redemption of some 
two hundred million dollars of the present National Bank currency 
issue (or the entire amount outstanding) with legal tender I nited 
States Treasury notes made redeemable in coin and the reissue at 
a lower interest of the United States bonds held as security there- 
for, would put in circulation as money, some eight hundred nnUion 
dollars of our National debt, thus made the best currency m tlie 
world, sustained and made par in gold— valuation by the credibility 
and responsibility of the United States of America, whose National 
bonded indebtedness is worth some thirty per cent. ].remium in 
gold, at only four per cent, interest. And still this vitally valu- 
able system of National finance for the i)eople is declared by Dem- 
ocratic political lawyer sharks totally unconstitutional. Nothing 
is constitutional with such lawyer cut-throats but to impoverish 
the country and beggar the people as they swindle their clients. 
This National debt should be refunded on fifty years' time, payable 
optionally with tlie Government or renewable after titty years, at 
two or three per cent, interest, to bring it down t<» par m gold or 
coin valuation. (The present generation has done enough to save 
or defend this Union ; let coming generations ].ay tlu> debt). 

The banks would be re(juired to give no security for the re- 
demist ion of this National Treasury note currency (they should dc- 
po>il I'liitcd States honds and receive their interi'st iheii'oii as 
security tor their de|M.sitors. whose UK.ney they u>e). whi.'h, by its 
vve:ir and tear aiul losses by lire au.l water and otherwise, and in 
su|.pl\ing the .ieniand for our presi^nt I'nited St.ates legal tender 
'I'reasury note currency, r.deem.il.le in gold and silver coin, would 
consume this National -Icbt in tiuu', the b.-st currency in the world. 



thus made elastic by its intei'chaiigeablc convevtibilitv into United 
States bonds, without any possibility of money panics. This sys- 
tem of finance would be self-regulating-, supplying safely all equit- 
able demands for money. 

Senator Farwell, in his attempt to perform a resurrection on 
the gambling, stump-tail banking swiiuUe of tlie Western States 
and his support of Mel. F'uller, may have a sub rosa interest in the 
scientific draw-poker skill of the Senator and his confederate, the 
late Minister Schenck. 

Senator Cullora states, as per reports, that that session of the 
Legislature of Illinois in M'hich Fuller and Goudy had a remarkable 
whiskey demijohn leadership of copperhead distinction, "was the 
meanest Legislature Illinois ever liad." And still Senator Cullom 
was mean enough to vote for one of the leaders of that meanest 
copperhead legislature for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the United States of America, thus far to defeat the struggling peo- 
ple in their efforts 'to resist the purposed free trade swindle of 
Cleveland & Co., which means reduction of labor in this country to 
the price of pauper labor in Europe, while our toiling people have 
been receiving double the pay for their labor under our high pro- 
tective tariff that they ever received before ; for instance, our hired 
girls who used to receive from -f 1.50 to §-2.00 now receive from 
^4.00 to lio.OO per week, other laborers are paid pro rata at least 
two to three times as much as they pay in Europe for the same 
labor. And laboring men can get a good cotton shirt, linen bosom 
and cuffs, at 50 cents to fl.OO each, and other fabrics//-^ rata in 
tliis country under our high protective tariff. 

The free trade scheme would turn the balance of trade now in 
our favor against the United States some !i;200,()ui),()o() per year, 
payable in g(»ld only — bankrupting our currency, credit and coun- 
try. We shouhl have no money to l)uy anything at any price, 
fc^verybody, who knows anything, knows that free trade means 
competition in labor wherever free tra<le exteiuls ; and everybody 
that knows anything, knows that no nation cm earth can compete 



with Great Britain in this line ul' productictn and traffic. 'I'hen to 
carry out the scheme of Cleveland, Carlisle, Mills, Morrison, Fuller 
& Co. (just as much enemies of the United States as Jeff Davis, 
Robert E. Lee, Beauregard & Co. ever were), the next move wuuld 
be to remove legal tender from the United States Treasury note 
currency, made redeemable in coin ; then every man's property in 
tlie United Stales could be bought for ten cents on the dollar of 
the present selling rates. 7''/iis would make the rich richer and the 
poor poorer, roith a vengeance. This is Silverite, Free Trader & 
Co.'s constitutional financiering for the dear people ; reducing them 
to European starvation pauperism. To thus reduce the price of 
labor in this country to the price of pauper lalbor in Europe, would 
create strikes and cause anarchy all over the United States, and 
ruin the Southei'n States. Free Trade is a favorite scheme of the 
Southern States, and with the purposed extension and perpetuation 
of slavery led to their criminally murderous rebellion. Free 
Traders & Co. are catering to the same cause which led to the 
rebellion, which might, if continued in power, culminate in similar 
or equal calamities. The apology now made for the last free trade 
message is that some man by the name of Marble was the author. 
Did the President endorse it, or did Marble forge the President's 
name? Cleveland has been seduced so many times, his \ iitue 
must be in a very bad condition. 

Four years is exactly the right time for the presidential term 
of office. If the one elected proves himself to be a designing bad 
man, or incompetant, the shorter his term of office, the better for 
the people and country. 

If the jteople'^ choice |)roves himself in four years to be a true 
and able statesman, worthy of the vital national trusts committed 
to his care, wisely, justly and ably administ,ering the (Tovi'miiient, 
<'.\posing, tiefcatinu' and punishing all offenders ]>i(iniplly, and 
stimulating, encouraging, rewarding eve y nu'rit and paying every 
just claim promptly protecting every national virtue and im])i()vc- 
ment, tlic people want that President four years longer. 



One Paper clamors for a six years' term of ))resi<lential (jftice 
— ostensibly to avoid costs (not corruption) of tlie four years' term 
of election. As thouoh it would not cost anything to elect a Pres- 
ident for six instead of four years. 

The truth is said paper wanted two years more to carry out 
and fasten ui)on this country this swindling, ruinous free trade 
scheme herein disclosed. 

The way to diminish costs, is to simplify and purify our elec- 
tions. Let all interference with free, honest voting ; all false and 
fraudulent ballot-counting ; all buying and selling votes ; all ballot- 
box stuffing or frauds, and political publication lying and perjury, 
be punished, like murder in the first degree, with state's prison for 
life. If politicians will be honest in no other way, coinpell them 
to be honest. 

This would diminish the present costs of elections three- 
quarters, and purify our political character, so that our national 
morals would, like our national financial credibility, stand twenty- 
five per cent, above gold, par valuation. 

The state's prison convict labor would then be augmented, so 
that it could be made to pay (at the same price of free labor) all 
costs of our honest, pure elections, and construct the Nicaragua 
Ship Canal ; cut a ship canal across the State of F'lorida ; build the 
Ottawa River Ship Canal from Lake Huron to Ottawa City or 
Montreal," with capacity enough to accommodate all ocean ship- 
ping ; build the Illinois Ship Canal connecting the Western lakes 
with the Mississippi River and all its tributaries, with capacity 
enough to accommodate all the river steamers ; perfectly improve 
all our river navigation ; l)uild all the fortifications necessary to 
protect the United States of America against all the combined 
navies of all foreign nations, and construct a ikhv of our own 
superior to any other navy in the world, with every Man of War 
a fatal Ram, and every oceaTi steamer ma<U' constriiclible into a 
man of war and vica Ncrsa. 



There would bo lawyers enough under high crimes and misde- 
meanors to see that all technicalities were observed, and keep the 
records, and judges enough, all in state's prison for life, to decide 
every case on technicalities, according to Tuley's criminally false 
construction, making a man's contract executed for his defence ex- 
clusively an obligation to give away all his property to his worst 
enemies. He then enters into league with other judges to enforce 
such a damnable decree — robbery and perjurious testimony — with 
bankrupting lawyers and court frauds in ruinous litigation ; giving 
all the honest earnings of industrious men to perjurious, fiendish 
robbers, /^r/zV.?/^ criminus, making honest men's characters and just 
fortunes in court a crime, and lawyer bribery, forgeiy, trickery 
and treacherous knavery a virtuous partnership robbery for con- 
federating judges, lawyers and perjured figure-head clients. 

The doctrine of Farwell and Cullom is good Lord, and good 
Devil, we don't know whose hands we shall fall into. 

Senators Farwell and Cullom have but one thing more they 
can do to show the wolf in sheep's clothing, lawyer and gambler- 
like — and thus secure a Benedict Arnold immortality — and that is 
to recommend and vote for free traders and bimetalic silver 
maniacs. 



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ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, 

MORE OR LESS IDLE MONEY IN THE 

UNITED STATES TREASURY. 



Tills is made an alarming political scarecrow and farce, Tiypo- 
trllically, to humbug and deceive the people to get their votes, 
which is too contemptibly ridiculous a fraud on credulity for any 
reflecting consideration. This great country can't be run on a two 
and six pence misers parcimony — might as well undertake to run 
tlie steamer City of New York on a hand cart trade. 

Free Traders clamor for an empty treasury and pretend that 
they want all there is in the United States Treasury paid out for 
the benefit of the people. How, they don't say, except to be sent to 
Europe in free trade, bankrupting the United States with cheap 
fabrics and no money. Possibly they may intend that their devo- 
tees should take the hint and devise some way of reaching this 
surplus to buy votes, demoralizing the people and corrupting the 
ballot-box for the election. Swindling, bribery, forgery and per- 
jury ought to be treated without any equivocation as among the 
highest crimes deserving the severest penalties in any civil govern- 
ment. Any one who sells his vote, and those who buy votes, cor- 
rupting the ballot-box, ought to be put in state's prison for life 
without reprieve. To thus poison the fountains of civil justice and 
sap the foundations of civil government by corruption to its over- 
throw, now being done in this country unblushingly, makes piracy 
under a black flag comparatively innocent and honorable, and 
threatens the downfall of any civil government. 

The only way to put said surplus in circulation for the benefit 
of the people is to strengthen our extensive coast fortifications, 
improve our river navigation, build our ship canals as highways of 
commerce, and improve our navy and prepare to pay the large 



amount of our national debt, nearing maturity, at par, or refund the 
same at 2 or 3 per cent, interest as herein suggested. This would 
employ and pay out to the children of toil double the amount of 
the present surplus per year for the benefit of our people and the 
development and protection of our national resources. But this 
would not satisfy the ardent, hot love of our lawyer sharks and 
politicians for " the dear people." 

Free Traders only care seems to be to provide prompt pay for 
a cut-throat laAvyer government and deceive with glittering free 
trade generalities and pretended ardent love for the dear people, 
and thus secure elections by that kind of soft solder, and to succeed 
at this or our next elections with foreign capital in corrupt uses in 
co-operation with a solid confederation. 

No foreign nation buys anything of the United States that it 
can produce or live without, and the United States can produce 
any and every thing that they want ; hence a prohibitory tariff 
would be better than free trade for the United States. Keeping all 
their money at home, they could afford to pay each other equitably 
higher prices. But our highest protective tariff is just what people 
want. If it saved the country's credit in time of war, it will fill 
the land with wealth in peace. Let us have it — the rich pay the 
tariff chiefly on luxuries. Why complain of the ruinous Dem- 
ocratic free trade schemes, when the Republican party have been 
humbugged into preparing a free trade tariff reduction bill ? The 
Democrats Avill chuckle over it and vote for it as their triumph in 
part. IIow ridiculously inconsistent. It is hoped said bill will be 
repealed or overwheliT»ingly defeated. What has been accomplish- 
ed for the benefit of the people of the United States under the 
high protective tariff? We will let the logic of events and facts 
answer in our next communication. 

The last Free Trade farewell message meant to verify the old 
adage, "that the last kick of a dying calf is the strongest ;" but 
the free trade calf has already committed suicide and kicked the 
whirlwind. 



The free trader and bimetalist is, nevertheless, as defiantly 
and stubbornly gritty as the Indian who stood by a bogus tree in 
a thunderstorm, stricken by lightning and knocked sprawling and 
senseless, but as soon as he came to himself he ran back and stood 
by the shattered tree, saying, " I will stand here." The free trader 
and that Indian will have a good time waiting. 

The Free Trader stultified common sense in tirading wealthy 
jieople, and lawful, praiseworthy, just accumulation of honest con- 
stitutional good fortunes secured by economical industry in this 
enterprising country ; seeming to foi-get that in his favorite Eur- 
opean governments they have their Rothschilds and their Bar- 
ings, and the largest accumulations of monopolizing wealth, and 
the poorest people on earth. 

The last or farewell free trade message was a most infamously 
defiant mess of verbiage and lawyer slush, which will be spurned by 
the American people in all coming time as an insult to our home 
industries, and it amounts to this, in brief : If wool and woolen 
fabrics, shee]>skin leather in all its uses (throwing mutton, an 
article of the most healthful meat diet away), can be produced by 
pauper labor in any market of Europe or of the world, cheaper 
than we can produce the same, we must abandon sheep raising and 
purchase all the productions of that one of our domestic industries 
and means of living for our people in said cheapest markets, with- 
out tariff — which tariff and principal is now paid by foreign pur- 
chasers of all our surplus in that line of our domestic industries. 
Say nothing of the hundreds of millions of dollars in gold that 
would be sent oiit of our country, how would our people live, now 
dependent on their daily labor for support, employed in our woolen 
industries ? Will free trade theory retire everyone employed in 
our woolen industries on a gold and silver fortune sufficient to pur- 
chase his living henceforward in the cheapest markets in the world, 
and pay costs of government and national improvements without 
any tariff income by direct taxation pro rata ? Astors and Vander- 
bilts might stand that for awhile, if they could convert their prop- 



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erty into gold before illimitable separate free silver coinage and 
the cheap markets of Europe could get it all. 

But it will be said that when pauper labor and cheap markets 
ill Euroj)e thus annihilate our woolen industries, all who have bien 
employed therein must work for the price of pauper labor in Europe, 
or go to raising wheat, cotton, rice, sugar, or some other useful and 
lawful employment. 

Let us see how that will work on free trade theory. Can they 
not raise wheat, cotton, rice and sugar or tobacco witli pauper labor 
in foreign countries ? 

Foreign countries present us with almost boundless harvest 
fields for wheat, cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco. 

Let us look at wheat products, the principal reliance for bread 
and living for the whole human race. Wheat can now be raised in 
British India cheaper by nearly one-half with pauper labor than it 
can be raised in the United States of America. It is difficult now 
to find any profitable market for the surplus wheat productions of 
the U. S. All India wants to become the deficit supply harvest 
field for Europe, is railway transportation (now being rushed to 
completion by Great Britain) to transport her productions to mar- 
ket ; which, together with the products of Australia, Egypt, Russia, 
and each foreign countrj^'s domestic supply, furnished by pauper 
labor on the cheapest living — limits foreign markets very alarm- 
ingly. But the free trader is playing the lawyer, with the United 
States as a client. What do lawyers care how their clients earn 
their money so long as lawyers get their swindling demands, until 
their clients are bankrupt. Lawyers generally are free traders at 
the ruinous cost of the suffering people. Litigation is ruinous to 
tlie clients or lawj'ors' victims. 

The question is, shall we guard our home industries by a liigli 
protective tariff, as we have done, and so continue to ])ay our toil- 
ing people the highest wages and give to them the best living of 
any people on earth, and maintain with the balance of international 
trade in our favor, an overflowing treasury, and thus fully pre- 



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pared build a reliable navy, and guard our extensive sea-coast with 
ample fortifications, enlarge our much needed harbor accommo- 
dations, improve most substantially our river navigation, pay 
liberal premiums to the best development of our gold and silver 
raining interests, contribute largely to the most valuable forest 
culture and irrigation on our millions of naked, waste prairies; and 
especially construct in the most permanent and ample manner our 
national ship canals as highways of commerce as herein suggested. 

Our government ought immediately to secure the exclusive 
right of way across the Isthmus over the most feasible route for an 
inter-ocean ship canal in South America, with the exclusive right 
to protect the same under the United States flag, of the government 
having jurisdiction of the country through which said canal would 
be built. That would annex all the country between said canal 
and the United States to the United States practically. 

Then secure the right of way through Canada from Lake Huron 
or Georgian Bay across Lake Kipissing, and along the Ottawa River 
into the St. Lawrence, at or near Montreal ; with the exclusive right 
to protect the same under the United States flag. This would 
virtually annex the northern provinces to the United States, and 
make the Monroe doctrine practical, and secure our entire country 
against foreign invasion, with every commercial advantage. 

Blackwell with a corps of engineers under the patronage of the 
government of Great Britain, surveyed this Ottawa River ship canal 
route, and offered to construct the same with ample capacity to ad- 
mit any of the ocean steamers or shipping into our ui)per lakes, 
and complete the same in ten years for $24,000,000. Our country 
cries out, saying : " Where are our national statesmen ? Have we 
no national statesmanship?" 

There never was a time when any nation had such mighty op- 
portunities and ample means to secure its national interests, and 
build imperishable monuments to the country's fame as the United 
States of America have at this present time. And still Congress is 



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spending national time and national money wrangling over many 
minor things for most ignoble purposes. 

Let it not be forgotten that low tariff secures balance of trade 
against the United States, and high tariff secures balance of trade 
in our favor, other things being equal. 

From 1848 to 1860, low tariff gave balance of trade against the 
United States 8390,000,000 in gold and silver. From 1875 to 1888 
high tariff gave balance of trade in favor of the United States, 
$1,600,000,000 in gold. 

Look at the present scheme of free traders, bimetalists, Silver- 
ites & Co., to buy in our Government bonds and valuable national 
currency before maturity on a profit to the rich bondholder, at a 
cost to the dear people of about thirty per cent, premium in gold 
paying 8130,000,000 in gold now^ for every 8100,000,000 of our 
National bonded indebtedness on low interest, at par, when due 
and payable. , This is a lawyer's love for the dear people, purely 
Democratic. 

The National banker might, and why not? buy three per cent. 
Government bonds, when issued as herein suggested, at about par, 
and swap them off as banking security for their four or six per 
cent, bonds, held for the same purpose, with Cleveland's treasurer, 
or about thirty per cent, profit at the cost of the dear people, and 
go right on with their double interest banking extortion. 

Cleveland, acting now not by, nor through his conflicting 
coadjutors in true lawyer knavery to swindle the people undei- 
false pretenses, /<?r//V<f/j criminus^ deals blessings theoretically to 
the dear people and benefits practically no more to tlie rich bunker 
and foreign bond-holder, like the vampire bat that fans his i>ur- 
posed victim to sleep with his velvet wings while it fastens its fangs 
on the jugular vein and sucks the life-blood out of the victim, then 
leaves him to wake up to helpless starvation and death. Instead 
thereof the mask is at least partially torn off and wo have a death 
struggle for the sectional spoils by local sharks in the face of 
National distress and ruin. 



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Free Traders and confederates seem to be tortured and dis- 
tressed in view of our overflowing United States Treasury, even 
while the whole country under our high protective tariff, was in the 
highest state of prosperity and the people were comparatively 
affluent. There is something mysterious about this Democratic 
agony over an overflowing Treasury. Does our Democratic Gov- 
ernment want to take away all our means of improvements and pro- 
tection and levy direct taxation on the people beggared by free 
trade for the support of the Government, allowing foreign nations 
to come to this country to build our inter-ocean ship canals as a 
foot-hold for their powerful navies? Are Free Traders & Co., 
catering to the rebellious "States and foreign powers, who built and 
fitted out pirate men-of-war to destroy our shipping in that savage 
murderous rebellion ? Look at Cleveland's attempt to restore the 
rebel flags taken by our brave Union soldiers on fields of conflict 
and carnage, prizes for our glorious Union soldiers' bravery. 

Look again and see the rebel soldiers in their rebel uniforms, 
under a rebel flag, trailing the victorious Stars and Stripes in the 
dust on the battle-field of Gettysburg, to unveil the monument 
erected to the memory of the rebel General Pickett only a short 
time since. The Democrats cry out, "let by-gones be by-gones." 
Is not the nmrderous spirit of that infernal rebellion even now 
flaunting its rebel flag in our faces, unrebuked by rule or ruin Free 
Traders & Co., awaiting only a leader and an opportunity ? Look 
at Cleveland's retaliatory fishing proclamation, which turns out to 
be a mere windy farce to catch Irish votes, because the Irish hate 
Great Britain. Suppose that windy fishing proclamation of Cleve- 
land's had been answered by a visit from the overwhelmingly iron- 
clad British navy while we had no navy for our defence ; they 
coul^ have burned every city on our sea-coast, and destroyed what 
shipping we have on all waters. 

Query.— Would free trade coadjutors clamor then for an 
empty United States Treasury ? Perhaps that was the apology ; 
they wanted to surrender our glorious Union to foreign powers and 



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the Soiithern Confoueracy. It is unsafe to flatter certain kinds of 
enemies. Thej Avill cut 3'our tliroat the first opportunity. The 
right way to flatter any party is to administer just ice — not rob the 
innocent to curry favor with the criminal, to the contempt of friend 
and foe alike. Harrison honeyf ugled with that little coppei headed 
democratic cut-throat lawyer Mel. Fuller, who became chief of the 
U. S. Supreme Court, no doubt by traitors and bribery, and also 
honeyfugled with the Democratic party and World's Fair, and de- 
feated the Republican party. One Achan defeated the armies of 
Israel. 

One thing is certain, the wholesale, savage, muiderous crime s 
of the Southern Rebellion against the best government on earth, 
slaughtering hundreds of thousands of men and making hundreds 
of thousands of widows and orphans in distress, together with th.eir 
Libby Prison savage brutalities and horrors, sacrificing billions of 
money and destroying property beyond com])utation, partly in 
]»irate partnership with foreign powers, are justly and undisputably 
chargeable to the criminal, rebellious Southern Dem.ocratic party 
and their Northern copperhead sympathizers. "Cast not your 
pearls before swine, lest they turn again and rend you." 

Now, what has the organization of the Union loyal people, 
called the Republican party, led by the best statesmen and most 
honored and reliable members of the old Democratic organization 
who left said party because of their crimes and corruption in their 
savage rebellion, done ? 

First, they conquered that savage rebellion— they saved this 
glorious Union without dismemberment— they took tlie National 
war debt, some three billions, when our bonds v.ere selling at fifty 
cents on a dollar, and made it par in gold. 

They have taken our National bonded indebtedness and tuade 
it worth twenty -five per cent, prenuum in gold; they originated and 
put in circulation our United States legal tender Treasury note 
currency, made redeemable in coin, the best currency in the 
world. (Originated by the author hereof). 



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'Jliey established our liigli protective tariff, which tilled our 
country with prosperity, overflowing our National Treasury and 
making our peoj^le comparatively affluent, prosperous and happy, 
])aying our toiling classes the highest wages received by any labor- 
ers on the face of the globe. 

They freed some four millions of slaves, as a war necessit}', 
and made them citizens of the United States. 

They honored and made glorious the Stars and Stripes — the 
National flag of the glorious Union — on every ocean, and made it 
respected in the highest degree by every nation on earth. 

Now, will the citizens of the United States, in the basest in- 
gi-atitude, dishonor the merits and remembrance of Governor 
^Morton, of Indiana, of ex-Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, 
of Generals Grant, Sherman, Butler and Logan, with their numer- 
ous coadjutors, who left the Democratic party in their rebellion 
and crimes, and vote to reinstate that Democratic party in power 
to control the destinies of this country ever again '? 

Who can we trust — our faithful friends or our treacherous 
enemies ? The people of this country must answer and determine 
this vital question at each returning election. If we neglect to 
educate the people henceforth, we are beaten. Foreign gold has a 
fearfully corrupting influence. 

'I'horoughly educate the people in literature, good morals, pure 
jjolitics and Christianity, and our country will be safe with an 
exalted nationality Avorthy of the Statue of Liberty recently erected 
in the harbor of New York City. May that Statue grow larger, 
and its outstretched arm never weary, and its light burn brighter 
and brighter during all coming tine. 

C. BURTON P. LYON. 

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